writing and media

My Substack archives contain only a subset of my published work. Here are more, sorted by category and reverse-chronology. Favorites in bold.

essays + publications

technology

“Stanford students want in on the military tech gold rush,” SF Standard, reported feature, 2025
“DeepSeek, unstacked,” Substack Reads, explainer/roundup, 2025
“Silicon Valley’s new Red Scare,” Business Insider, reported feature, 2025
“Public AI,” Mozilla Foundation, white paper, 2024
“Making Software with a Soul,” Reboot, podcast, 2024
“Does Tech Criticism Still Matter?,” Reboot, essay, 2023
“Building Creator-Centered Platforms,” Kernel Magazine, interview, 2022
“Take Back the Future!,” Kernel Magazine, essay, 2021
“A National AI for Good Initiative,” Day One Project, policy memo, 2020
“Communicative friction,” UX Collective, essay, 2020
“How would Jane Jacobs design a social media platform?,” essay, 2020

personal

“exit interview,” on working at Substack
“the scenic route,” on taking the Amtrak Zephyr
“seeking shangri-la,” on going to China
“how to beat the odds,” on building Reboot
“internet archive,” on memoir and memory
“in poor taste,” on having bad taste
“tryhard,” on effort
“same old,” on repetition and conviction
“audience of one,” on art and independence
“state of exception,” on pandemic retreats
“reason for decision,” on high school debate
“pure heroine,” on intensity
“courting the city,” on my favorite cities
“object permanence,” on owning too much stuff
“things that don’t scale,” on lockdown vibes

invited talks + interviews

Untangled, “The Potential of Public AI,” podcast, 2024
Why Is This Interesting?, “The Monday Media Diet,” written interview, 2024
Embedded, “My Internet,” written interview, 2024
The Point, “Working in Tech,” written interview, 2023
The Next Web, “The Tech We Want,” conference panel, 2023
Amnesty Int’l & Fight for the Future, “Human Rights & web3,” panel, 2022
Logic Magazine, “Intergenerational Struggle Session,” edited conversation, 2022
TCIA Data 4 Public Good, “The Emergence of Public Interest Technology,” conference panel, 2022
The Other Side, “Utopias + Value Pluralism,” podcast, 2021
Logic Magazine, “Coming of Age in Silicon Valley,” edited conversation, 2021
This Must Be The Place, “Civic Infrastructure and Online Communities,” podcast, 2020

other media projects

Reboot and Kernel Magazine, cofounder/director, 2020—present
“A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace,” coauthor, 2021
Rebuilding Government, podcast host, 2019